Sonnet stopped phase 2 on GoogleOAuthConfig.tsx, where 55 of 67 strings are
quoted from Google's own console — 'Click Enable', 'set App name'. It called it an
editorial choice and asked. It is not a choice; it is already covered by the
principle the never-translate list is built on, and the list just did not say so.
Those labels read like prose and behave like identifiers: their whole job is to
match what the reader sees on Google's screen, and Google localises by the reader's
Google account language rather than ours. Translating them sends somebody hunting
for 'Ativar' in a console that says 'Enable'.
So: translate the prose around them, leave the label in English, and do not key it
with identical values on both sides — a key whose two halves can never legitimately
differ is a maintenance cost bought for nothing.
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Found while converting them in phase 1: they resolve against whatever provider is
above them and render dot-paths with none. Safe today only because the second React
root imports nothing from components/. Written where the plugin-contract decision
will be made rather than solved here.
D2 had pt-BR inherit from pt so a base carried the shared bulk and a regional file
carried the differences. Conventional, and rejected by the owner for a product
reason that outranks the engineering one.
The failure mode of an overlay is a missing European Portuguese key falling
through to Brazilian — and the two differ most in exactly the technical vocabulary
this UI is full of. The platform sells into European Portuguese first, so that
failure is a reader getting a neighbouring variant's words on whichever strings
nobody remembered to override, silently.
So every locale is a whole file, translated, or it does not ship. The drift
objection is answered by promoting the key-parity test from advisory to
load-bearing: a locale missing a key `en` has fails the build, so an incomplete
catalog cannot ship at all. Completeness is enforced rather than papered over.
It is also less code — resolveKey looks in one catalog and then English, with no
chain to walk and no merge order — and it removes the question of which file a
given string lives in.
Consequence for the work: a new locale is a full machine-translated pass reviewed
on its own, not a diff against a base. pt-PT and pt-BR get one each, separately,
because the whole point is that neither borrows from the other.
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not built. an execution plan written to be handed to an agent who did
not have the conversation, so it carries the reasons and not just the
steps.
what it found: there is already a hand-rolled i18n package with typed
keys, two catalogs and 46 keys — and exactly three components using it.
against 884 distinct hardcoded strings across 436 files. so the system
is not missing, it is 5% deployed, and that gap is the job.
the decisions worth arguing with are D1 and D6. D1: the server should
never emit user-facing prose, it returns a stable code and the UI owns
every word — with the trap that a code must not leak more than the prose
did, or a deliberately vague 403 becomes an enumeration oracle. D6:
catalogs per workspace rather than one file, because one 900-key en.json
is a merge conflict on every parallel edit.
the scanner reproduces the numbers in the doc and doubles as the guard
once an area reaches zero.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5